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. Detritus
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
2. Kowtow
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
3. Oxidize
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
4. Bellicose
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
5. Hemoglobin
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
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.