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. Circumnavigate
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To proceed completely around:
2. Fatuous
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
3. Temblor
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
4. Notarize
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
5. Unctuous
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.