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. Incognito
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
2. Kowtow
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
3. Nadir
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
4. Wrought
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
5. Winnow
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
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