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. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
2. Parameter
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
3. Nanotechnology
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
4. Thermodynamics
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
5. Lugubrious
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
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.