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. Hubris
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
2. Vehement
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
3. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To bring under control; conquer.
4. Expurgate
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► 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.
5. Impeach
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To make an accusation against.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
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