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. Precipitous
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Hemoglobin
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
3. Acumen
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
4. Obsequious
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
5. Deciduous
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
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.