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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. Nihilism
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
2. Unctuous
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
3. Enfranchise
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
4. Tempestuous
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
5. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
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