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. Parabola
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
2. Vehement
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
3. Hemoglobin
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. Nonsectarian
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
5. Unctuous
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.