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. Irony
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2. Auspicious
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
3. Homogeneous
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
4. Deciduous
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
5. Equinox
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
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.