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. Nadir
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
2. Chicanery
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To make an accusation against.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
3. Oxidize
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
4. Tautology
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
5. Circumnavigate
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To proceed completely around:
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.