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. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Temblor
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
3. Nonsectarian
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
4. Nadir
5. Tautology
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
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