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. Deciduous
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
2. Parabola
► To bring under control; conquer.
3. Nonsectarian
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
4. Taxonomy
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
5. Nihilism
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
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