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. Oligarchy
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
2. Subjugate
► To bring under control; conquer.
3. Totalitarian
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
4. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To proceed completely around:
5. Oxidize
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
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