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. Taxonomy
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To proceed completely around:
2. Quasar
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
3. Oligarchy
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
4. Paradigm
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Auspicious
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
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