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. Nihilism
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
2. Tectonic
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► To proceed completely around:
3. Antebellum
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
4. Acumen
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
5. Facetious
► To make an accusation against.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
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.