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. Fatuous
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
2. Irony
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
3. Nomenclature
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
4. Polymer
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
5. Kinetic
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
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.