Choose the most appropriate word that can substitute the given group of words.

The state of growing to maturity.

Adolescence

The most appropriate word that can substitute the given group of words is adolescence.

• Immigrant is a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
• Innocence is the state of being free from sin or guilt.
• Adolescence is the period of physical and psychological development that occurs between childhood and adulthood.
• Apartheid is a system of racial segregation that was enforced in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.