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
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
2. Notarize
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
3. Lexicon
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
4. Temblor
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
5. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► To make an accusation against.
► 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.