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. Filibuster
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
2. Deciduous
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
3. Temblor
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
4. Respiration
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
5. Diffident
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
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.