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. Enervate
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► To proceed completely around:
2. Plasma
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
3. Diffident
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
4. Deleterious
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
5. Equinox
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
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.