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. Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
2. Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
3. A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.
4. Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.
5. Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.