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. Evanescent
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
2. Gauche
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
3. Metamorphosis
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
4. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
5. Epiphany
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► 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.
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