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. Lucid
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
2. Soliloquy
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To make an accusation against.
3. Usurp
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
4. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
5. Notarize
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
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.