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. Reciprocal
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Lucid
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
3. Notarize
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
4. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
5. Temblor
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
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.