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
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
2. Euro
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
3. Gauche
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
4. Photosynthesis
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
5. Polymer
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.