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. Metamorphosis
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
2. Supercilious
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
3. Abrogate
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
4. Photosynthesis
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
5. Tectonic
► To proceed completely around:
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
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.