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. Gauche
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
2. Loquacious
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
3. Incognito
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
4. Enervate
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
5. Equinox
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.