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. The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
2. Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.
3. To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.
4. Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
5. To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
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