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. A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.
3. The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
4. Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
5. Very talkative; garrulous.
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