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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. Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
2. To stick out
3. The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
4. Progress toward a goal.
5. The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
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