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. Unctuous
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. Enfranchise
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
3. Suffragist
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Usurp
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
5. Kowtow
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
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