
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. Having a bad disposition; surly.
2. Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
3. Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
4. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
5. To picture falsely; misrepresent.
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