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. Moiety
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
2. Jejune
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
3. Deleterious
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
4. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
5. Facetious
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
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.