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. Orthography
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
2. Deciduous
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
3. Impeach
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To make an accusation against.
4. Reciprocal
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
5. Notarize
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
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.