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. To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
2. Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
3. A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
4. The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
5. The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.
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