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. Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
2. A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
3. Of or relating to money
4. The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
5. A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.
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