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. Vortex
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Taxonomy
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
3. Tectonic
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
4. Oxidize
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
5. Deleterious
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
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.