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 place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,
3. Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
4. Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
5. An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
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