
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. Yeoman
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
2. Infrastructure
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
3. Diffident
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To make an accusation against.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
4. Kinetic
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
5. Enervate
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.