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. To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
3. Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
4. Having one’s true identity concealed.
5. A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.
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