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. Diffident
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
2. Homogeneous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
3. Nomenclature
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
4. Photosynthesis
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
5. Subjugate
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
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