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. Tautology
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
2. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
3. Enervate
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
4. Abjure
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
5. Oxidize
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
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.