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. Parabola
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
2. Hemoglobin
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To make an accusation against.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
3. Deciduous
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
4. Detritus
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
5. Temblor
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
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.