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. Circumnavigate
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To proceed completely around:
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
2. Vehement
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
3. Fatuous
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
4. Equinox
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To bring under control; conquer.
5. Omnipotent
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
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.