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. Bellicose
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
2. Deciduous
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
3. Abstemious
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
4. Diffident
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
5. Recapitulate
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
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.