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. Hemoglobin
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To bring under control; conquer.
2. Lucid
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
3. Circumlocution
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. Taxonomy
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Supercilious
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To make an accusation against.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
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.