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. Circumlocution
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To make an accusation against.
2. Respiration
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
3. Suffragist
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
4. Orthography
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
5. Incontrovertible
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
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