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. Suffrage
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
2. Delegate
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
3. Parasite
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
4. Zoology
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
5. Bamboozle
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
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