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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 remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.
2. To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.
3. Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
4. The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.
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