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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
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► A measurement one can compare to.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
2. debris
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
3. analyze
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
4. egregious
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
5. fragrance
► What something does or is used for.
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