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. Chromosome
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. Abjure
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
3. Facetious
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
4. Precipitous
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
5. Thermodynamics
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.