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
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
2. Equinox
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
3. Incognito
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
4. Pecuniary
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To make an accusation against.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
5. Circumnavigate
► To make an accusation against.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To proceed completely around: