
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. Subjugate
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Lugubrious
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
3. Contradiction
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
4. Circumlocution
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
5. Filibuster
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.