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. Oxidize
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
2. Winnow
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
3. Soliloquy
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
4. Vacuous
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
5. Infrastructure
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.