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. Belie
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
2. Sanguine
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
3. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
4. Vehement
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
5. Nomenclature
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► A system of names used in an art or science:
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