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. Hypotenuse
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
2. Inculcate
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
3. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. Taxonomy
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
5. Impeach
► To make an accusation against.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
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