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. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
2. Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
3. A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
4. Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
5. The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
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