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. Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
2. Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
3. A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.
4. Of the same or similar nature or kind
5. Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
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