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. Usurp
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Loquacious
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
3. Diffident
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
4. Lugubrious
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
5. Auspicious
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.