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Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words

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. An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Infrastructure

Polymer

Thermodynamics

Fiduciary


2. A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

Thermodynamics

Fiduciary

Temblor

Lexicon


3. Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

Moiety

Parabola

Hemoglobin

Acumen


4. The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

Parameter

Oligarchy

Chicanery

Nanotechnology


5. The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

Feckless

Omnipotent

Photosynthesis

Vortex


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This Week's Word In The News 

DERECHO

DEFINITION:
A widespread, long-lived, straight-line windstorm that is associated with a fast-moving band of severe thunderstorms.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
derecho windstorms occur once every year or two across the central and northeastern U.S. in a band from Texas to New England.
The Dayton Daily News, 06/17/2013