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. Kinetic
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
2. Auspicious
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
3. Laissez faire
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To proceed completely around:
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
4. Interpolate
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
5. Omnipotent
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
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