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. Winnow
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
2. Deleterious
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
3. Acumen
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To make an accusation against.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
4. Nomenclature
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
5. Tautology
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
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