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. Plasma
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
2. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
3. Facetious
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
4. Loquacious
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
5. Photosynthesis
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.