Boston Herald in Education provides free newspapers and curriculum to schools through sponsor and reader donations.
Generate your own quiz 

Select a grade level

 Elementary
 Middle School
 High School

Select a quiz type

 By words    By Definitions

How many questions?

 5  10  15  20 Questions



 

Common Core State Standard
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.
This Week's Word In The News 

ACQUAINTANCE

DEFINITION:
A person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
When photographer Peter Turnley was just 20 years old, an acquaintance from the California Office of Economic Opportunity reached out to him with a question.
The Los Angeles Times, 12/01/2025

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. Chromosome

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

A system of names used in an art or science:


2. Respiration

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.


3. Hemoglobin

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.


4. Lexicon

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:


5. Soliloquy

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.


Get more Quizzes 

 Elementary School    Middle School   High School  

 By Word     By Definition    5  10  15  20 Questions

©2025 Boston Herald in Education and Online Publications Inc. and NIEonline.com