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. Facetious
► To make an accusation against.
► To bring under control; conquer.
2. Feckless
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
3. Contradiction
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
4. Interpolate
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
5. Pecuniary
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
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