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. Winnow
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
2. Reparation
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
3. Nomenclature
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
4. Interpolate
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To proceed completely around:
5. Taxonomy
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
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