
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. Hubris
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
2. Sanguine
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
3. Facetious
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
4. Hemoglobin
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
5. Taxonomy
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To make an accusation against.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.