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. Hypotenuse
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
2. Thermodynamics
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
3. Respiration
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
4. Unctuous
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
5. Quotidian
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► 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.