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 doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.
3. To show servile deference.
4. An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.
5. A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.
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