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. replenish
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► A particular geographic region.
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
2. attentive
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
3. clarify
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
4. scarcity
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► A process of compensation for losses.
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
5. unsightly
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Brief, concise, to the point.
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