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. Respiration
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
2. Hypotenuse
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
3. Thermodynamics
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
4. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
5. Chicanery
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.