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. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
2. The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.
3. Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
4. Tumultuous; stormy.
5. The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
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