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. Orthography
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
2. Kowtow
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
3. Churlish
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
4. Loquacious
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
5. Deciduous
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth: