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. Incontrovertible
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
2. Auspicious
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
3. Kowtow
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
4. Evanescent
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
5. Abjure
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
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