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. Nanotechnology
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
2. Nihilism
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
3. Mitosis
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
4. Precipitous
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
5. Ziggurat
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
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.