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. Reciprocal
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
2. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
3. Vehement
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
4. Nomenclature
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
5. Churlish
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
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.