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. Hemoglobin
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
2. Irony
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
3. Antebellum
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
4. Nadir
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
5. Polymer
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To proceed completely around: