
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. Having a bad disposition; surly.
2. A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.
3. Architectural.
4. Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
5. Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
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