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. The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
2. A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.
3. A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.
4. A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
5. An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.
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