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. Omnipotent
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
2. Nanotechnology
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
3. Reparation
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
4. Temblor
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
5. Circumnavigate
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To proceed completely around:
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
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.