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. Deciduous
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
2. Gauche
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
3. Sanguine
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. Nanotechnology
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
5. Feckless
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
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.