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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. Interpolate
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
2. Nomenclature
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
3. Subjugate
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To bring under control; conquer.
4. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
5. Reparation
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
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