
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. Churlish
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
2. Equinox
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
3. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
4. Parameter
► To bring under control; conquer.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
5. Circumlocution
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.