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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. Abstemious
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
3. Tempestuous
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
4. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
5. Irony
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
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