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. Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
2. A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,
3. A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.
4. A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
5. The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.