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. Incognito
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
2. Nihilism
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
3. Belie
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
4. Acumen
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
5. Reciprocal
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.