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. Recapitulate
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To make an accusation against.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
2. Wrought
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
3. Yeoman
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
4. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
5. Tempestuous
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
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.