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. Nanotechnology
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
2. Thermodynamics
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
3. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
4. Bellicose
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
5. Epiphany
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
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