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. Orthography
► To bring under control; conquer.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
2. Usurp
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► To make an accusation against.
3. Oxidize
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
4. Nanotechnology
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
5. Kinetic
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.