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 reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.
2. Eating and drinking in moderation.
3. Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
4. To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
5. A part, portion, or share.
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