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
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
2. Respiration
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
3. Quasar
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
4. Gauche
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
5. Irony
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► 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.