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. Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
3. Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
4. A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
5. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
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