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. Deleterious
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
2. Mitosis
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
3. Nadir
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
4. Infrastructure
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
5. Vortex
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
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.