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. To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
2. Eating and drinking in moderation.
3. Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
4. Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
5. A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.
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