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. Supercilious
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. Kinetic
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
3. Expurgate
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
4. Oligarchy
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
5. Equinox
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.