Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words
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. Mitosis
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
2. Nanotechnology
► To make an accusation against.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
3. Sanguine
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
4. Evanescent
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
5. Tautology
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
LS.CCS.4/5/6 Grades 3-12: Students are asked to determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words through multiple choice vocabulary quizzes. Quizzes are designed to help students demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in words, acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words, and gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to its overall meaning or function in a sentence.