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. Circumnavigate
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To proceed completely around:
2. Quotidian
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
3. Kinetic
► To make an accusation against.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
4. Hubris
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
5. Abstemious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
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.