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. Having a bad disposition; surly.
2. Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
3. The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
4. Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
5. A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
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