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. Diffident
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
2. Lugubrious
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
3. Tectonic
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
4. Soliloquy
► A diligent, dependable worker.
5. Deleterious
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
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.