
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. Fiduciary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
2. Abstemious
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
3. Abjure
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
4. Usurp
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
5. Abrogate
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.