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. Winnow
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
2. Diffident
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
3. Ziggurat
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
4. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
5. Lucid
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
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.