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. Loquacious
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
2. Diffident
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
3. Parameter
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► To make an accusation against.
4. Lugubrious
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
5. Circumnavigate
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► To proceed completely around:
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
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.