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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. Deciduous
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
2. Nihilism
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
3. Soliloquy
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
4. Mitosis
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. Quotidian
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
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