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. Obsequious
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
2. Acumen
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
3. Abstemious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
4. Loquacious
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
5. Hypotenuse
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► To proceed completely around:
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
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.