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. Deleterious
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
2. Vehement
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
3. Soliloquy
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
4. Interpolate
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
5. Oligarchy
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
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