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. Churlish
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
2. Expurgate
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
3. Auspicious
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
4. Loquacious
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
5. Parabola
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
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.