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. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
2. Circumlocution
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
3. Hemoglobin
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
4. Unctuous
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
5. Paradigm
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► To proceed completely around:
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.