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. Gauche
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
2. Parameter
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
3. Kinetic
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
4. Kowtow
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Homogeneous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.