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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. Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
2. To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
3. Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
4. A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.
5. Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
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