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. Impeach
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To make an accusation against.
2. Reparation
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
3. Loquacious
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
4. Taxonomy
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
5. Belie
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
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