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. Obsequious
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
2. Usurp
► To make an accusation against.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
3. Vehement
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
4. Soliloquy
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
5. Precipitous
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To proceed completely around:
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
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.