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. Plasma
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
2. Circumnavigate
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To proceed completely around:
3. Antebellum
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
4. Nomenclature
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► A system of names used in an art or science:
5. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► 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.