Generate your own quiz 

Select a grade level

 Elementary
 Middle School
 High School

Select a quiz type

 By words    By Definitions

How many questions?

 5  10  15  20 Questions



 

Common Core State Standard
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.
This Week's Word In The News 

SUREFIRE

DEFINITION:
Certain or likely, especially to succeed.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Kirby taught himself how to count cards, a surefire way to get barred from gambling at a casino, “raking in money on trips to Atlantic City and Las Vegas,” the article stated.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 05/04/2026

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. Churlish

Having a bad disposition; surly.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

A system of names used in an art or science:

Architectural.


2. Hypotenuse

A system of names used in an art or science:

Architectural.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


3. Oligarchy

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

Not interesting; dull:

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


4. Circumlocution

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


5. Polymer

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

Noninterference in the affairs of others.


Get more Quizzes 

 Elementary School    Middle School   High School  

 By Word     By Definition    5  10  15  20 Questions