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. Sanguine
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
2. Winnow
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
3. Circumlocution
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
4. Detritus
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
5. Diffident
► To make an accusation against.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
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