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. To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
3. Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
4. Division into ordered groups or categories.
5. Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.
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