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. Interpolate
► To make an accusation against.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
2. Expurgate
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► To proceed completely around:
3. Mitosis
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
4. Respiration
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
5. Reparation
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
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