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. Plasma
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
2. Auspicious
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
3. Abjure
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
4. Kowtow
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To bring under control; conquer.
5. Tectonic
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
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