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
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
2. Vehement
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
3. Feckless
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
4. Respiration
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
5. Chromosome
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
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.