
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 predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
2. Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.
3. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
4. Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,
5. Put together; created.