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. Nonsectarian
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
2. Lexicon
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
3. Sanguine
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
4. Auspicious
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
5. Notarize
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► 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.