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 stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
2. Lacking social polish; tactless.
3. An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.
4. Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
5. To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
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