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. Feckless
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
2. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
3. Deleterious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
4. Hypotenuse
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
5. Quotidian