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. Infrastructure
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
2. Precipitous
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
3. Expurgate
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
4. Auspicious
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
5. Parameter
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► 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.