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. A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.
3. The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.
4. Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
5. An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.
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