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. Laissez faire
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
2. Sanguine
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
3. Circumlocution
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. Hemoglobin
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
5. Facetious
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.