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. Vacuous
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
2. Paradigm
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
3. Thermodynamics
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
4. Abrogate
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
5. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.