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. Evanescent
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
2. Recapitulate
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
3. Irony
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
4. Hegemony
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
5. Kinetic
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.