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 sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
2. Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
3. Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
4. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
5. Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
Lessons & Classroom Activities
Resources by grade level