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. A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.
3. Lacking social polish; tactless.
4. The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.
5. Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
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