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. Fatuous
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
2. Diffident
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To make an accusation against.
3. Moiety
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
4. Gerrymander
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
5. Nihilism
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
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.