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. Wrought
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
2. Hemoglobin
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
3. Oligarchy
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
4. Tectonic
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
5. Homogeneous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
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.