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. Supercilious
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
2. Infrastructure
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
3. Chicanery
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
4. Thermodynamics
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
5. Wrought
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
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.