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 marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
2. A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.
3. To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
4. Division into ordered groups or categories.
5. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
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