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. Acumen
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
2. Auspicious
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
3. Tautology
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
4. Precipitous
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► To make an accusation against.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
5. Incognito
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
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.