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. Lucid
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
2. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To proceed completely around:
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
3. Sanguine
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
4. Abjure
► 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.
5. Plasma
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
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.