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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. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
2. Of the same or similar nature or kind
3. A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.
4. Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
5. A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.
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