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. Sanguine
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
2. Vortex
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
3. Recapitulate
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
4. Temblor
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
5. Soliloquy
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
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.