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. Division into ordered groups or categories.
2. 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.
3. To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
4. Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
5. Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
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