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. Vehement
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Evanescent
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
3. Irony
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
4. Circumnavigate
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To proceed completely around:
5. Soliloquy
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
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.