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. Detritus
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
2. Deleterious
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
3. Chromosome
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
4. Unctuous
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
5. Vehement
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
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