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. Quasar
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
2. Circumnavigate
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To proceed completely around:
3. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
4. Hypotenuse
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► To make an accusation against.
5. Tautology
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
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.