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. Gamete
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
2. Circumnavigate
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► To proceed completely around:
3. Fatuous
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
4. Vacuous
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
5. Abstemious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
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.