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. Winnow
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
2. Omnipotent
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
3. Deleterious
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
4. Vacuous
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To make an accusation against.
5. Gauche
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
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