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. Plasma
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
2. Circumnavigate
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To proceed completely around:
3. Epiphany
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
4. Thermodynamics
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
5. Oxidize
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.