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
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. Nomenclature
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
3. Respiration
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
4. Orthography
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
5. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
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