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. Tempestuous
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
3. Reparation
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
4. Bellicose
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
5. Circumlocution
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
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.