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. Auspicious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
2. Epiphany
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
3. Recapitulate
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
4. Churlish
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
5. Infrastructure
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► 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.