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. Soliloquy
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
2. Mitosis
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
3. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
4. Precipitous
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
5. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
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.