
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. Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
2. Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
3. A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.
4. Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
5. Having a harmful effect; injurious.
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