
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. Acumen
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
2. Sanguine
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
3. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
4. Expurgate
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
5. Enfranchise
► To make an accusation against.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.