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. Gauche
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
2. Churlish
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
3. Parameter
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
4. Vehement
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
5. Respiration
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To make an accusation against.
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.