
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. Churlish
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
2. Paradigm
► To make an accusation against.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
3. Metamorphosis
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To proceed completely around:
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
4. Hypotenuse
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
5. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.