Resources for Teachers and Students
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. An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.
2. Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
3. Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
4. Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
5. Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
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