
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. Metamorphosis
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
2. Contradiction
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Detritus
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
4. Xenophobe
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
5. Obsequious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.