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. Hypotenuse
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
2. Moiety
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
3. Enervate
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
4. Thermodynamics
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To bring under control; conquer.
5. Abstemious
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.