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. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
2. Homogeneous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
3. Nadir
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
4. Pecuniary
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
5. Oxidize
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
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