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. Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
2. Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
3. Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
4. A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.
5. Noninterference in the affairs of others.
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