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. Soliloquy
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
2. Tautology
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To proceed completely around:
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
3. Contradiction
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
4. Deciduous
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
5. Oligarchy
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.