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 purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
2. Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
3. A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
4. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
5. Noninterference in the affairs of others.
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