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
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
2. Incontrovertible
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
3. Reparation
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
4. Detritus
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
5. Metamorphosis
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
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