
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. Parameter
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. Usurp
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
3. Reparation
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
4. Chicanery
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
5. Interpolate
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.