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. Supercilious
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
2. Irony
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
3. Infrastructure
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
4. Inculcate
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
5. Contradiction
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.