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. Facetious
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
2. Loquacious
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
3. Precipitous
► 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.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
4. Evanescent
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
5. Nonsectarian
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
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.