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. Diffident
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
2. Reparation
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
3. Photosynthesis
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
4. Homogeneous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
5. Tectonic
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To proceed completely around:
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
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