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
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
2. Facetious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
3. Infrastructure
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
4. Soliloquy
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
5. Polymer
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
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.