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. Antebellum
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
2. Precipitous
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
3. Laissez faire
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
4. Taxonomy
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
5. Infrastructure
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
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.