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. A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
2. To proceed completely around:
3. Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
4. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.
5. A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
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