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. Xenophobe
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
2. Mitosis
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
3. Temblor
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
4. Subjugate
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
5. Abstemious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
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