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. misgivings
► A process of compensation for losses.
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
2. potential
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
3. evidence
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
4. cunning
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
5. diminish
► More than half (50%) of some group
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
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