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. Precipitous
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. Sanguine
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
3. Infrastructure
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
4. Kinetic
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
5. Contradiction
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
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.