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. Suffragist
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
2. Auspicious
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To proceed completely around:
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
3. Hypotenuse
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
4. Bowdlerize
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
5. Kinetic
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.