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. Deciduous
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
2. Abrogate
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► To bring under control; conquer.
3. Lexicon
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
4. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
5. Contradiction
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
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.