
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
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
2. Feckless
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
3. Recapitulate
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
4. Gamete
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
5. Orthography
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.