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. Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
2. Division into ordered groups or categories.
3. The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
4. The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
5. The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
Lessons & Classroom Activities
Resources by grade level