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. Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
2. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
3. The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
5. Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
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