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. Belie
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
2. Antebellum
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
3. Tempestuous
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
4. Hemoglobin
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
5. Hypotenuse
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
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.