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. Equinox
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
2. Totalitarian
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
3. Nomenclature
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
4. Vortex
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
5. Oligarchy
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
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.