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
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
2. Abjure
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
3. Impeach
► To make an accusation against.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
4. Tautology
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
5. Interpolate
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.