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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. Evanescent
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
2. Acumen
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
3. Bellicose
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
4. Reparation
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
5. Pecuniary
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
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