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. Hypocrisy
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
2. Embargo
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
3. Nocturnal
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
4. Sacrifice
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
5. Malignant
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
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