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. Kowtow
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. Winnow
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
3. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
4. Chicanery
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
5. Deciduous
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth: