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. Detritus
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
2. Photosynthesis
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
3. Notarize
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
4. Diffident
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
5. Sanguine
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
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.