
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. Vortex
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. Epiphany
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
3. Auspicious
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
4. Enfranchise
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
5. Paradigm
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.