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. Taxonomy
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
2. Gauche
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
3. Respiration
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
4. Chicanery
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
5. Incognito
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
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