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. An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
2. To bring under control; conquer.
3. A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
4. Playfully jocular; humorous
5. Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
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