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. Abstemious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. Tectonic
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
3. Totalitarian
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
4. Nanotechnology
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
5. Vehement
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
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