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. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
2. Fatuous
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Loquacious
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
4. Ziggurat
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
5. Belie
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
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.