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. Kowtow
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
2. Irony
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
3. Circumlocution
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. Respiration
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
5. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
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.