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. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To make an accusation against.
2. Nonsectarian
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
3. Inculcate
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
4. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
5. Hemoglobin
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
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