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.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
2. Abstemious
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
3. Bellicose
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
4. Fatuous
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
5. Parameter
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
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