
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
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
2. Vehement
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
3. Temblor
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
4. Orthography
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
5. Enervate
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.