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. Ziggurat
2. Auspicious
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
3. Acumen
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
4. Equinox
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
5. Fiduciary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.