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 harmful effect; injurious.
2. Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
3. To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
4. Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
5. Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
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