
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. Notarize
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
2. Irony
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
3. Incognito
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
4. Deleterious
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
5. Obsequious
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.