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. Detritus
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
2. Facetious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
3. Circumlocution
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. Notarize
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
5. Laissez faire
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
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.