
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
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To make an accusation against.
2. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
3. Hemoglobin
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
4. Diffident
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
5. Incontrovertible
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.