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. Lacking social polish; tactless.
2. A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
3. The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
4. The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
5. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.
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