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
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
2. Respiration
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
3. Tempestuous
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
4. Oligarchy
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To make an accusation against.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
5. Fatuous
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To proceed completely around:
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.