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. Sanguine
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
2. Antebellum
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
3. Precipitous
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
4. Homogeneous
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
5. Lugubrious
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
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.