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. Gamete
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
2. Tautology
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
3. Gerrymander
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
4. Circumnavigate
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To proceed completely around:
5. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
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.