
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. Hegemony
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
2. Ziggurat
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
3. Abstemious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Circumnavigate
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To proceed completely around:
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
5. Xenophobe
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.