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. Diffident
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
2. Churlish
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
3. Contradiction
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
4. Belie
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
5. Enfranchise
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
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.