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. Xenophobe
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
2. Soliloquy
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
3. Vehement
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Vortex
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
5. Quotidian
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
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.