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. Vacuous
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
2. Pecuniary
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
3. Lucid
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
4. Notarize
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
5. Churlish
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
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