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. Enervate
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
2. Diffident
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
3. Nanotechnology
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
4. Thermodynamics
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
5. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
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.