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. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
2. Hegemony
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
3. Auspicious
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
4. Incontrovertible
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
5. Deleterious
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To bring under control; conquer.
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