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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 modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
3. Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
4. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
5. 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.
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