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. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
2. Fatuous
► To make an accusation against.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
3. Bellicose
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
4. Hypotenuse
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
5. Homogeneous
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.