
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. Taxonomy
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
2. Chromosome
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
3. Enervate
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
4. Ziggurat
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
5. Bellicose
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.