
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. Bowdlerize
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. Xenophobe
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
3. Plasma
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
4. Belie
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
5. Reciprocal
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.