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. Quasar
► To make an accusation against.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
2. Nadir
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
3. Homogeneous
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
4. Quotidian
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
5. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
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.