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. Gamete
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Respiration
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
4. Feckless
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
5. Abjure
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
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.