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. Lugubrious
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
2. Abrogate
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
3. Unctuous
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
4. Fiduciary
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
5. Recapitulate
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.