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. Lucid
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
2. Deleterious
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
3. Circumlocution
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. Precipitous
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
5. Vehement
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
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.