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. Enfranchise
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
2. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
3. Suffragist
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
4. Moiety
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
5. Tempestuous
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
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