
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. Quotidian
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To make an accusation against.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
2. Nihilism
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
3. Irony
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
4. Laissez faire
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
5. Nonsectarian
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.