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 serious purpose or occupation; idle.
2. The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
3. A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.
4. Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
5. To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.
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