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. Homogeneous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Respiration
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
3. Nanotechnology
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
4. Nomenclature
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To make an accusation against.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
5. Lexicon
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
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.