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. Abjure
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
2. Moiety
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
3. Homogeneous
► To make an accusation against.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
4. Loquacious
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
5. Usurp
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
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