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. Vehement
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
2. Nadir
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
3. Kowtow
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
4. Lexicon
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
5. Wrought
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.