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. Totalitarian
► To make an accusation against.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
2. Quotidian
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
3. Recapitulate
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
4. Wrought
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
5. Supercilious
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
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