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.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
2. Infrastructure
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
3. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
4. Auspicious
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
5. Hubris
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
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