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. Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
2. A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.
3. Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
4. To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
5. A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,