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. Abrogate
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
2. Subjugate
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
3. Circumlocution
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To make an accusation against.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
4. Usurp
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
5. Quotidian
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
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