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. Lexicon
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
2. Temblor
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
3. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. Gamete
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
5. Supercilious
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
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.