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
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
2. Lucid
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
3. Bowdlerize
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
4. Tautology
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
5. Deleterious
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
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