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. Loquacious
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
2. Hypotenuse
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
3. Churlish
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
4. Tautology
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
5. Supercilious
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.