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. Incognito
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
2. Diffident
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
3. Hemoglobin
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
4. Unctuous
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
5. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
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