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. Plasma
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
2. Hubris
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
3. Kinetic
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
4. Facetious
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
5. Interpolate
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
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.