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. Usurp
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
2. Sanguine
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
3. Tautology
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To proceed completely around:
4. Ziggurat
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
5. Soliloquy
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
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.