
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. Bowdlerize
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. Wrought
► To make an accusation against.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
3. Facetious
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
4. Obsequious
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
5. Belie
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.