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. Irony
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
2. Homogeneous
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
3. Vortex
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
4. Mitosis
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To bring under control; conquer.
5. Laissez faire
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
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