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. A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.
3. Everyday; commonplace.
4. A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.
5. Deception by trickery or sophistry.
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