
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. Circumlocution
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
2. Interpolate
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
4. Nihilism
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
5. Winnow
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.