Resources for Teachers and Students
Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
Then see if you can find the word in your newspaper -- the print edition, the website or the digital edition and copy the sentence for context. NOTE: High School words are much harder to find!
1. Hypotenuse
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To proceed completely around:
2. Omnipotent
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
3. Acumen
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
4. Deciduous
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
5. Reciprocal
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To make an accusation against.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
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