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
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
2. Tectonic
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
3. Deleterious
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
4. Winnow
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
5. Obsequious
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
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