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. Chicanery
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
2. Yeoman
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
3. Hubris
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
4. Facetious
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
5. Belie
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► To proceed completely around:
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