
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. Lugubrious
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
2. Recapitulate
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
3. Churlish
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
4. Oligarchy
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
5. Fiduciary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.