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. Gerrymander
► To make an accusation against.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
2. Detritus
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
3. Precipitous
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
4. Suffragist
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
5. Belie
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.