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. Nanotechnology
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
2. Reciprocal
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
3. Thermodynamics
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
4. Winnow
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
5. Temblor
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
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.