
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. Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
2. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
3. To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
4. The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
5. A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
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