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. Nihilism
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
2. Churlish
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
3. Fiduciary
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
4. Deciduous
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To make an accusation against.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
5. Sanguine
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.