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. Photosynthesis
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
2. Plasma
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
3. Antebellum
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
4. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
5. Thermodynamics
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
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.