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. Kinetic
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
2. Unctuous
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
3. Gauche
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
4. Loquacious
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
5. Suffragist
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
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