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. Kowtow
2. Quasar
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
3. Deciduous
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
4. Temblor
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
5. Tectonic
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
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.