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. Abjure
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
2. Vehement
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
3. Churlish
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
4. Chromosome
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Irony
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.