
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. Kinetic
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
2. Supercilious
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Tempestuous
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
4. Jejune
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
5. Abjure
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.