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 or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
2. To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
3. Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
4. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.
5. Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.