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. Oligarchy
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Incontrovertible
► To proceed completely around:
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
3. Gamete
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
4. Feckless
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
5. Irony
► To make an accusation against.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
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.