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. Vortex
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
2. Precipitous
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
3. Ziggurat
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
4. Lexicon
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
5. Respiration
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
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.