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. Infrastructure
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
2. Laissez faire
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
3. Vortex
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
4. Detritus
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
5. Soliloquy
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
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.