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. The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
2. To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
3. To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
4. To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.
5. Very talkative; garrulous.
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