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. Supercilious
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
2. Ziggurat
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
3. Belie
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
4. Acumen
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
5. Facetious
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
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.