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. Of the same or similar nature or kind
2. A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.
3. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
4. Very talkative; garrulous.
5. Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.
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