
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. Deleterious
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
2. Lexicon
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
3. Fatuous
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
4. Nadir
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
5. Oxidize
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.