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. Lucid
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
2. Temblor
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
3. Circumnavigate
► To proceed completely around:
► To bring under control; conquer.
4. Nadir
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
5. Churlish
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
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