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. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
2. A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
3. The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.
4. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.
5. Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
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