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. Incontrovertible
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
2. Tautology
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
3. Facetious
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
4. Kinetic
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
5. Usurp
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
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.