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. Abrogate
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
2. Oligarchy
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
3. Loquacious
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To proceed completely around:
4. Vortex
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
5. Quotidian
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.