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. Tempestuous
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
2. Nadir
3. Hubris
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To proceed completely around:
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
4. Nomenclature
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
5. Thermodynamics
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
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