
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. A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.
2. A part, portion, or share.
3. To renounce under oath; forswear.
4. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
5. To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.