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. Respiration
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
2. Hubris
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
3. Chicanery
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
4. Obsequious
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
5. Irony
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
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