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. Metamorphosis
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
2. Reciprocal
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
3. Plasma
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
4. Respiration
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
5. Deciduous
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
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.