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. Abstemious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
2. Enervate
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
3. Interpolate
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
4. Lexicon
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
5. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
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