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. Quotidian
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
2. Tautology
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
3. Nomenclature
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
4. Circumlocution
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
5. Totalitarian
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.