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. Lacking social polish; tactless.
2. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
3. To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
4. A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
5. A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.
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