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. Contradiction
► To proceed completely around:
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
2. Fiduciary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
3. Gauche
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
4. Suffragist
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
5. Diffident
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
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