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. Parameter
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
2. Notarize
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Circumnavigate
► To proceed completely around:
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
4. Metamorphosis
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
5. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
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