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. Feckless
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
2. Kinetic
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
3. Notarize
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
4. Suffragist
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
5. Irony
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
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.