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. Gauche
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
2. Bowdlerize
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
3. Tectonic
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
4. Incontrovertible
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
5. Vacuous
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.