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. Deleterious
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To proceed completely around:
2. Taxonomy
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
3. Quotidian
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
4. Acumen
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
5. Antebellum
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.