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. Homogeneous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Wrought
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
3. Circumnavigate
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► To proceed completely around:
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
4. Deciduous
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
5. Tempestuous
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
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.