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. Jejune
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
2. Circumnavigate
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To proceed completely around:
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
3. Bowdlerize
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
4. Epiphany
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
5. Belie
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
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