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. Pecuniary
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
2. Diffident
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
3. Unctuous
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
4. Omnipotent
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
5. Precipitous
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.