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. Tautology
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
2. Homogeneous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
3. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
4. Usurp
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
5. Nanotechnology
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
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.