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. Obsequious
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To proceed completely around:
2. Supercilious
► To proceed completely around:
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
3. Orthography
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
4. Homogeneous
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
5. Chromosome
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
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.