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. Tectonic
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
2. Gerrymander
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
3. Mitosis
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
4. Laissez faire
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
5. Reparation
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To proceed completely around:
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.