Resources for Teachers and Students
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. The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.
2. Division into ordered groups or categories.
3. Of the same or similar nature or kind
4. Having a bad disposition; surly.
5. A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.
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