
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. Obsequious
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
2. Epiphany
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
3. Subjugate
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To bring under control; conquer.
4. Abstemious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
5. Deleterious
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.