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 factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
2. A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.
3. Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
4. A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.
5. To show servile deference.
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