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. Photosynthesis
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
2. Infrastructure
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
3. Thermodynamics
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
4. Laissez faire
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
5. Bowdlerize
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.