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. Plasma
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► To proceed completely around:
2. Abjure
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
3. Orthography
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
4. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
5. Moiety
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
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