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. Parameter
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
2. Suffragist
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
3. Gauche
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
4. Nadir
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
5. Moiety
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
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.