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. Parameter
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
2. Enfranchise
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
3. Circumlocution
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
4. Deleterious
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
5. Orthography
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
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