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.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
2. Temblor
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
3. Auspicious
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
4. Yeoman
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To proceed completely around:
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
5. Gauche
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable