
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. Infrastructure
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
2. Nadir
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
3. Temblor
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To make an accusation against.
4. Bellicose
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
5. Oligarchy
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.