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. Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
2. Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
3. Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
4. Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
5. To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
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