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. Enfranchise
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
2. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
3. Vacuous
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
4. Deleterious
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
5. Jejune
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
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