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. Antebellum
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
2. Tautology
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
3. Xenophobe
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
4. Tectonic
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
5. Thermodynamics
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
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.