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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. The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
2. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
3. A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.
4. To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
5. Playfully jocular; humorous
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