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. Nonsectarian
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
2. Recapitulate
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To make an accusation against.
3. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
4. Reparation
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
5. Belie
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
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