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. Abjure
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
2. Vortex
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
3. Soliloquy
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
4. Fatuous
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
5. Lugubrious
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► 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.