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. Tumultuous; stormy.
2. The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
3. A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.
4. Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
5. The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
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