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. Feckless
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To make an accusation against.
2. Mitosis
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► To proceed completely around:
3. Parabola
► To proceed completely around:
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
4. Photosynthesis
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
5. Hubris
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
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