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. Boycott
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
2. Decorum
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
3. Labyrinth
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
4. Deduction
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
5. Hypocrisy
► The arrangement of events in time
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
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