
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. Parameter
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
2. Nomenclature
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
3. Gauche
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Lucid
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
5. Bowdlerize
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.