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. Circumlocution
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
2. Gamete
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
3. Precipitous
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
4. Tempestuous
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
5. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
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.