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. Abjure
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
2. Gerrymander
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
3. Auspicious
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
4. Facetious
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
5. Impeach
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To make an accusation against.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
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.