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. Hubris
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
2. Wrought
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To proceed completely around:
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
3. Thermodynamics
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
4. Detritus
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
5. Abjure
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.