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. Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
2. The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.
3. Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
4. An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.
5. A system of names used in an art or science:
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