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. Division into ordered groups or categories.
2. Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
3. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
4. A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
5. A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.