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. Xenophobe
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. Deciduous
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
3. Kinetic
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
4. Abjure
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Thermodynamics
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
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.