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. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.
2. The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
3. The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.
5. Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
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