
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 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.
2. Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
3. To bring under control; conquer.
4. Having a harmful effect; injurious.
5. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.
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