
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. Usurp
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
2. Churlish
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
3. Contradiction
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To bring under control; conquer.
4. Omnipotent
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
5. Vortex
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.