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. An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.
3. The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.
4. Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
5. To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.