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 dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.
2. An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.
3. To make an accusation against.
4. A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.
5. Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
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