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
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
2. scarcity
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
3. uncanny
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
4. ensure
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► To make something by merging parts.
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
5. primarily
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.