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. Lugubrious
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To make an accusation against.
2. Chicanery
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
3. Hypotenuse
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
4. Feckless
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
5. Circumnavigate
► To proceed completely around:
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
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.