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. Soliloquy
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
2. Winnow
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
3. Gauche
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
4. Obsequious
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
5. Kowtow
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To bring under control; conquer.