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5 High School Words

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. Tumultuous; stormy.

► Lugubrious

► Fiduciary

► Tempestuous

► Bowdlerize

2. A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

► Deleterious

► Metamorphosis

► Supercilious

► Incontrovertible

3. To show servile deference.

► Kinetic

► Kowtow

► Taxonomy

► Auspicious

4. Lacking social polish; tactless.

► Auspicious

► Sanguine

► Abjure

► Gauche

5. To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

► Quasar

► Recapitulate

► Bellicose

► Oligarchy

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This Week's Word In The News 

INITIATE

DEFINITION:
To set going by taking the first step; begin.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Troopers initiated a pursuit of the vehicle at the rest area on Interstate 71 just north of the Ohio 123 exit east of Lebanon, troopers said.
►The Dayton Daily News, 05/20/2013