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 harmful effect; injurious.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
2. Hypotenuse
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
3. Yeoman
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
4. Homogeneous
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
5. Nomenclature
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.