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. Deleterious
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
2. Supercilious
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Gauche
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
4. Acumen
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
5. Inculcate
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary: