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. Winnow
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
2. Usurp
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
3. Taxonomy
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
4. Impeach
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To make an accusation against.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
5. Polymer
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.