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. Mitosis
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
2. Deleterious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
3. Plasma
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
4. Nanotechnology
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
5. Interpolate
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To proceed completely around:
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
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.