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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 result or outcome of a cause.
2. Progress toward a goal.
3. To end, to come to an end.
4. An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
5. Timid, fearful, overly cautious
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