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. Circumlocution
► To bring under control; conquer.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
2. Vortex
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
3. Kowtow
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
4. Abrogate
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To make an accusation against.
5. Usurp
► To make an accusation against.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.