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. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To proceed completely around:
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
2. Totalitarian
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
3. Lucid
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
4. Hubris
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
5. Jejune
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.