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. 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.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
2. Bellicose
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
3. Photosynthesis
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
4. Abjure
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
5. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
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.