
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. Recapitulate
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
2. Deciduous
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
3. Churlish
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
4. Incontrovertible
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
5. Interpolate
► To make an accusation against.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind