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. Pecuniary
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
2. Suffragist
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
3. Polymer
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
4. Abstemious
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
5. Lexicon
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
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