
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. An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
2. To show servile deference.
3. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
4. Noninterference in the affairs of others.
5. To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
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