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. Bellicose
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
2. Supercilious
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Facetious
4. Feckless
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
5. Orthography
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
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.