
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. Contradiction
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
2. Vortex
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
3. Soliloquy
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
4. Tautology
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
5. Nadir
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.