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. Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
2. Lacking social polish; tactless.
3. To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.
4. A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.
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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