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. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Obsequious
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
3. Circumnavigate
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To proceed completely around:
4. Bowdlerize
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
5. Lexicon
► 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:
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
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.