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. Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
2. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
3. Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
4. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
5. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
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