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. Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
2. Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
3. Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
4. To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
5. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
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