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. Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
2. Having a bad disposition; surly.
3. Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
4. To proceed completely around:
5. Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
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