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. Deleterious
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2. Laissez faire
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
3. Infrastructure
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
4. Incontrovertible
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
5. Abrogate
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
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