
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. Ziggurat
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
2. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
3. Abjure
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
4. Jejune
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To bring under control; conquer.
5. Hypotenuse
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.