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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. Having a bad disposition; surly.
2. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
3. An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
4. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
5. Not interesting; dull:
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