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. Eating and drinking in moderation.
3. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
4. A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.
5. Put together; created.
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