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. Totalitarian
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
2. Supercilious
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Suffragist
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Jejune
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
5. Moiety
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
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.