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. Lexicon
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
2. Filibuster
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
3. Soliloquy
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
4. Ziggurat
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
5. Auspicious
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
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.