
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. Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
2. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.
3. A part, portion, or share.
4. A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,
5. A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
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