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. Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
2. To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
3. A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
4. Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
5. To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.
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