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. Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
2. To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.
3. A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.
4. Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
5. Tumultuous; stormy.
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