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
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
2. Tautology
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
3. Nanotechnology
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
4. Unctuous
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
5. Recapitulate
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
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.