
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. Acumen
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
2. Thermodynamics
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
3. Fiduciary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
4. Kowtow
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
5. Lugubrious
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.