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. Symbiosis
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
2. Alliteration
► The arrangement of events in time
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
3. Fallacy
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
4. Divulge
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
5. Protagonist
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
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