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. Facetious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
2. Hubris
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
3. Quasar
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
4. Precipitous
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
5. Jejune
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
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