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. Tautology
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
2. Contradiction
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
3. Parabola
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
4. Hemoglobin
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
5. Nomenclature
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
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.