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. A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,
2. A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
3. Everyday; commonplace.
4. An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
5. To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
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