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. A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.
2. Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
3. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
4. A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,
5. To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.
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