
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. To proceed completely around:
2. Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
3. An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.
4. To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.
5. A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,