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. Xenophobe
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
2. Loquacious
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
3. Reciprocal
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
4. Supercilious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Evanescent
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
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.