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. Moiety
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Soliloquy
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
3. Recapitulate
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
4. Respiration
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
5. Loquacious
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
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