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. A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
2. To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
3. Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
4. Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
5. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
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