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. Deciduous
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
2. Plasma
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
3. Hemoglobin
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
4. Notarize
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Lucid
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
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.