
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. Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
2. To bring under control; conquer.
3. Of the same or similar nature or kind
4. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
5. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
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