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. Oxidize
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
2. Nomenclature
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
3. Laissez faire
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
4. Kowtow
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
5. Impeach
► To make an accusation against.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.