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. Contradiction
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
2. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
3. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To proceed completely around:
4. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
5. Soliloquy
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
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