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. To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
2. An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
3. Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
4. An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.
5. Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
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