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. Circumnavigate
► To proceed completely around:
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
2. Thermodynamics
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Enervate
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
4. Incognito
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
5. Nonsectarian
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
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