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. Deciduous
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
2. Circumnavigate
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To proceed completely around:
3. Filibuster
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
4. Polymer
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
5. Moiety
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
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.