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
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
2. Equinox
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
3. Inculcate
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
4. Hypotenuse
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
5. Jejune
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
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.