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. Hemoglobin
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. Lucid
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
3. Equinox
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
4. Paradigm
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
5. Epiphany
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
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.