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. Suffragist
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Metamorphosis
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
3. Unctuous
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
4. Parabola
► 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.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
5. Soliloquy
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
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.