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. Obsequious
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
2. Chromosome
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
3. Parabola
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. Tautology
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
5. Respiration
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.