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. Lucid
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
2. Bellicose
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
3. Lexicon
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
4. Churlish
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
5. Unctuous
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
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.