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. Abrogate
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
2. Enervate
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
3. Fatuous
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
4. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
5. Bowdlerize
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
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.