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. Incontrovertible
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
2. Infrastructure
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
3. Sanguine
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
4. Recapitulate
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
5. Metamorphosis
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► To make an accusation against.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
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