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. The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.
2. To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.
3. Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
4. Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
5. To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.