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. Abrogate
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
2. Polymer
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
3. Chromosome
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
4. Soliloquy
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
5. Quasar
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
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.