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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. scarcity
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
2. document
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
3. apprehensive
► The source or reason of an event or action
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
4. terse
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
► A measurement one can compare to.
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
5. except
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
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