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. Diffident
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Abjure
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
3. Unctuous
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
4. Temblor
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
5. Recapitulate
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
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.