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. Paradigm
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
2. Diffident
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
3. Acumen
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
4. Euro
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
5. Lucid
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
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