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 

DEPLETE

DEFINITION:
To use up or consume a limited resource.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Councilor Brian Worrell is sounding off after a Suffolk Superior Court judge ruled that if the footage became public before trial, it would deplete the jury pool in the manslaughter case against Boston police officer Nick O’Malley.
The Boston Herald, 07/27/2026

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. Contradiction

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

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Logical incongruity


2. Vortex

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


3. Nanotechnology

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

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

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.


4. Hegemony

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.


5. Bellicose

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.


Get more Quizzes 

 Elementary School    Middle School   High School  

 By Word     By Definition    5  10  15  20 Questions

©2026 Boston Herald in Education and Online Publications Inc. and NIEonline.com