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. Deciduous
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
2. Thermodynamics
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
3. Belie
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
4. Supercilious
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
5. Equinox
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
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.