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. Kinetic
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
2. Reparation
► To proceed completely around:
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
3. Facetious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
4. Equinox
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
5. Acumen
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.