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. Suffragist
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Metamorphosis
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
3. Unctuous
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
4. Parabola
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
5. Soliloquy
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.