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 use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
2. Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
4. The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.
5. A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.
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