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 plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.
2. A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,
3. Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
4. Put together; created.
5. Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.