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. Tempestuous
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
2. Oxidize
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
3. Lucid
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To proceed completely around:
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
4. Chromosome
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
5. Tectonic
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
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.