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.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
2. Impeach
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► To make an accusation against.
3. Precipitous
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
4. Kinetic
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
5. Hegemony
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.