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. Quotidian
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
2. Chicanery
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
3. Wrought
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
4. Enervate
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To proceed completely around:
5. Unctuous
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
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.