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. Nadir
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Metamorphosis
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
3. Gauche
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
4. Unctuous
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
5. Quotidian
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
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.