
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. Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Lacking social polish; tactless.
3. A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.
4. A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,
5. Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
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