
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. Having a bad disposition; surly.
2. A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
3. Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
4. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
5. An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.
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