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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 place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
3. Lacking social polish; tactless.
4. Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
5. Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
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