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. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
2. Churlish
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
3. Photosynthesis
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To make an accusation against.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
4. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
5. Oligarchy
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
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.