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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. clarify
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
2. replenish
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
3. chronological
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
4. reduce
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
5. furtive
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
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