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. Expurgate
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
2. Infrastructure
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
3. Incognito
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
4. Kinetic
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
5. Nonsectarian
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.