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. Antebellum
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
2. Tectonic
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
3. Precipitous
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
4. Wrought
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
5. Reparation
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.