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. Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
2. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.
3. Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
4. To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
5. Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary