
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. Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
2. A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.
3. The lowest point
4. A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.
5. Deception by trickery or sophistry.
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