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. Facetious
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
2. Vortex
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
3. Supercilious
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
4. Vehement
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
5. Tempestuous
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
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.