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. Acumen
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. Vacuous
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
3. Fiduciary
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
4. Ziggurat
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
5. Sanguine
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
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.