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. Winnow
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
2. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
3. Quotidian
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
4. Usurp
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
5. Gerrymander
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.