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. Evanescent
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. Tectonic
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
3. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
4. Suffragist
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► 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.
► To proceed completely around:
5. Polymer
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To make an accusation against.
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.