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. Nonsectarian
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
2. Reciprocal
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
3. Loquacious
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
4. Antebellum
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
5. Orthography
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
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.