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. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
2. Suffrage
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► The arrangement of events in time
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
3. Voracious
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
4. Parasite
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
5. Zoology
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Being without or almost without hope
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