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. Precipitous
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Metamorphosis
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
3. Hegemony
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
4. Filibuster
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
5. Fatuous
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
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