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. Epiphany
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
2. Detritus
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
3. Jejune
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
4. Chromosome
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
5. Circumnavigate
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To proceed completely around:
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
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