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. Nadir
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
2. Fatuous
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
3. Contradiction
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
4. Loquacious
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
5. Totalitarian
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
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