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. Quotidian
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Chromosome
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
3. Enervate
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
4. Notarize
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
5. Gamete
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.