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. Playfully jocular; humorous
2. To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.
3. An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
4. A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.
5. The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
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