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. Nonsectarian
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
2. Thermodynamics
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
3. Homogeneous
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
4. Reparation
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
5. Vacuous
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
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