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. Quasar
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
2. Nihilism
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
3. Homogeneous
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
4. Jejune
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
5. Plasma
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
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.