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. Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
2. Lacking social polish; tactless.
3. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
4. To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
5. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
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