
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. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
2. Reciprocal
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
3. Nadir
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
4. Yeoman
► A diligent, dependable worker.
5. Antebellum
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.