
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. Thermodynamics
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
2. Hubris
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
3. Contradiction
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
4. Precipitous
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
5. Mitosis
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To make an accusation against.