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 separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
2. Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
3. To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
4. A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
5. A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.
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