
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. Kinetic
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
2. Bowdlerize
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
3. Oligarchy
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
4. Laissez faire
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
5. Loquacious
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.