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. Tempestuous
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Usurp
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
3. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
4. Orthography
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
5. Abstemious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
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.