
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. Unctuous
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
2. Nomenclature
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
3. Winnow
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
4. Tempestuous
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
5. Irony
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.