
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. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
2. Abrogate
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
3. Gauche
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
4. Winnow
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
5. Belie
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.