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. Sanguine
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
2. Filibuster
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
3. Auspicious
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
4. Gamete
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
5. Chicanery
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
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.