
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. Obsequious
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
2. Omnipotent
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Detritus
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
4. Laissez faire
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
5. Deleterious
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.