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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. Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
2. To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
3. To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.
4. Having a bad disposition; surly.
5. Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
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