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. Moiety
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
2. Hemoglobin
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
3. Feckless
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
4. Parabola
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
5. Kinetic
► To proceed completely around:
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
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.