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. Obsequious
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
2. Usurp
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
3. Incontrovertible
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
4. Incognito
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
5. Impeach
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To make an accusation against.
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