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. Unctuous
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
2. Quasar
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
3. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
4. Gamete
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To proceed completely around:
5. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
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.