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
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
2. Kinetic
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
3. Totalitarian
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
4. Ziggurat
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
5. Supercilious
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
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.