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. Equinox
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
2. Laissez faire
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
3. Winnow
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
4. Evanescent
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. Omnipotent
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To make an accusation against.
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.