
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. Fiduciary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2. Reparation
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
3. Tectonic
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
4. Abjure
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
5. Chicanery
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.