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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. Tempestuous
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
2. Abstemious
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
3. Tautology
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
4. Laissez faire
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
5. Deciduous
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
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