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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. Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
2. Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
3. A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
4. A process of compensation for losses.
5. To come into view.
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