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. Usurp
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
2. Enervate
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
3. Kinetic
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
4. Supercilious
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
5. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
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.