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. Irony
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To proceed completely around:
2. Bellicose
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
3. Subjugate
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
4. Mitosis
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. Suffragist
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► To make an accusation against.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
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.