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. Fiduciary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
2. Respiration
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
3. Kowtow
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
4. Paradigm
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
5. Photosynthesis
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
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