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. Wrought
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
2. Fiduciary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
3. Feckless
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
4. Metamorphosis
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
5. Inculcate
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
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