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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. Tumultuous; stormy.
2. A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.
3. Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
4. A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.
5. Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
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