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. Gauche
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
2. Abstemious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
3. Belie
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
4. Euro
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
5. Jejune
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.