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. Gauche
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. Vortex
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
3. Gamete
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
4. Evanescent
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
5. Infrastructure
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
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.