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. Impeach
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To make an accusation against.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
2. Bellicose
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
3. Kowtow
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
4. Enervate
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
5. Nihilism
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
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