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. Totalitarian
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. Kowtow
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To make an accusation against.
3. Evanescent
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
4. Gauche
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
5. Deciduous
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
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