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. Kinetic
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
2. Jejune
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
3. Gerrymander
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
4. Inculcate
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
5. Hypotenuse
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.