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. Feckless
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
2. Sanguine
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
3. Usurp
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
4. Tectonic
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
5. Enervate
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
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