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. Vacuous
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
2. Omnipotent
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
3. Contradiction
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
4. Supercilious
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
5. Lucid
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
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