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. A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
3. The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.
4. Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
5. Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
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