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. Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
2. Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
4. A system of names used in an art or science:
5. A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.
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