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. Circumnavigate
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To proceed completely around:
2. Lexicon
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
3. Soliloquy
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
4. Kowtow
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
5. Evanescent
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
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