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. Mitosis
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
2. Hypotenuse
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
3. Supercilious
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
4. Fiduciary
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
5. Kowtow
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
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.