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. Filibuster
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
2. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
3. Temblor
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
4. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
5. Irony
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
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.