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. Soliloquy
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
2. Subjugate
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To make an accusation against.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
3. Polymer
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To proceed completely around:
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
4. Nanotechnology
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
5. Kowtow
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
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