
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 seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
2. To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.
3. Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
4. Very talkative; garrulous.
5. To bring under control; conquer.
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