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. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
2. Having a harmful effect; injurious.
3. To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
4. To renounce under oath; forswear.
5. Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
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