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. Wrought
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
2. Contradiction
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
3. Epiphany
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
4. Equinox
► To proceed completely around:
5. Vacuous
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
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