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. Gamete
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
2. Equinox
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
3. Abstemious
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
4. Filibuster
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
5. Usurp
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
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.