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. Circumnavigate
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To proceed completely around:
2. Belie
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
3. Incognito
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
4. Deleterious
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
5. Hubris
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
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.