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. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
2. Precipitous
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
3. Deciduous
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
4. Churlish
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
5. Plasma
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.