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. Hemoglobin
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
2. Equinox
3. Xenophobe
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
4. Parameter
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
5. Usurp
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
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