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. Deciduous
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
2. Incognito
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
3. Inculcate
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
4. Antebellum
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
5. Omnipotent
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.