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. Subjugate
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
2. Gerrymander
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
3. Contradiction
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
4. Facetious
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
5. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.