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. Loquacious
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
2. Fatuous
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
3. Epiphany
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
4. Taxonomy
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
5. Pecuniary
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
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.