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. Evanescent
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
2. Wrought
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To make an accusation against.
3. Gamete
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To proceed completely around:
4. Gauche
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
5. Detritus
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
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