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. Supercilious
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
2. Lucid
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
3. Homogeneous
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To make an accusation against.
4. Diffident
► To make an accusation against.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
5. Belie
► To proceed completely around:
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
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.