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. Reparation
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
2. Lucid
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
3. Parameter
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
4. Kinetic
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► To make an accusation against.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
5. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
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.