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. Feckless
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
2. Antebellum
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
3. Deciduous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
4. Unctuous
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
5. Thermodynamics
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.