
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 social polish; tactless.
2. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
3. To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
4. The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
5. Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
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