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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. A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.
2. Clear to the understanding.
3. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
4. To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
5. Put together; created.
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