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. Feckless
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
2. Jejune
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
3. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
4. Fiduciary
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
5. Gauche
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
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