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. Vacuous
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
2. Thermodynamics
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
3. Abstemious
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
4. Interpolate
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
5. Fatuous
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To make an accusation against.
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.