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. Jejune
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
2. Fiduciary
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
3. Oxidize
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
4. Interpolate
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
5. Parameter
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To make an accusation against.