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. Hubris
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
2. Laissez faire
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
3. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
4. Supercilious
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
5. Fatuous
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To make an accusation against.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
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.