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. Hubris
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
2. Tautology
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
3. Chicanery
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To proceed completely around:
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
4. Hypotenuse
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
5. Usurp
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
