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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. Deciduous
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Unctuous
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
3. Usurp
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
4. Lexicon
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
5. Taxonomy
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To proceed completely around:
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