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
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
2. Deleterious
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
3. Fatuous
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
4. Reciprocal
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
5. Jejune
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.