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. Abstemious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
2. Auspicious
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
3. Soliloquy
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
4. Oxidize
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
5. Wrought
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
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