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 place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. To make an accusation against.
3. A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.
4. Having a harmful effect; injurious.
5. The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.
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