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. Wrought
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
2. Jejune
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
3. Fiduciary
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
4. Churlish
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
5. Taxonomy
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
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