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High School Quiz
Words in the News
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. A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.
► Oxidize
► Diffident
► Gamete
► Ziggurat
2. Everyday; commonplace.
► Thermodynamics
► Quotidian
► Precipitous
► Loquacious
3. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Lugubrious
► Enervate
► Infrastructure
► Vehement
4. Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Evanescent
► Parameter
► Respiration
► Auspicious
5. Put together; created.
► Respiration
► Auspicious
► Bowdlerize
► Wrought