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. Acumen
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
2. Respiration
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
3. Antebellum
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
4. Parabola
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
5. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
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.