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. recuperate
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
2. primarily
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
3. conspicuous
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
4. apprehensive
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
5. reduce
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
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