
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. Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
2. The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
3. Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
4. A system of names used in an art or science:
5. Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
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