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. The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
2. To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
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 sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
5. The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
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