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. Nomenclature
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Churlish
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
3. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
4. Oligarchy
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Hubris
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.