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. Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
2. A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.
3. To show servile deference.
4. Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
5. Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
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