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. Reparation
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
2. Polymer
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
3. Circumnavigate
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To proceed completely around:
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
4. Suffragist
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
5. Lexicon
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
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