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. Soliloquy
► To bring under control; conquer.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
2. Evanescent
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
3. Vortex
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
4. Nonsectarian
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
5. Orthography
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
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.