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. Taxonomy
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
2. Oxidize
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
3. Infrastructure
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
4. Evanescent
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
5. Diffident
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
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.