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. The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
2. Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
3. A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.
4. To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
5. To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.
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