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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. An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► scarcity
► foresight
► somber
► imperious
2. A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► ember
► disdain
► sociable
► contributions
3. Flexible, liable to change.
► adversary
► malleable
► jostle
► cause
4. Dependent on each other
► materialize
► waft
► interdependence
► replenish
5. To stick out
► jut
► swarm
► monotonous
► symbolism
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DEFINITION: Accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise.
FOUND IN THE NEWS: Pets are getting fatter because of their increasingly sedentary lifestyles and they are being overfed, and more than one in seven cats and dogs in Ohio are now overweight or obese, according to a new report ►Dayton Daily News, 05/21/2012
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