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. Auspicious
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
2. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
3. Abrogate
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
4. Inculcate
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
5. Incontrovertible
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
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.