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. Bowdlerize
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
2. Reciprocal
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
3. Tempestuous
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
4. Recapitulate
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
5. Kowtow
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
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