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. Gauche
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
2. Circumlocution
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
3. Incognito
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
4. Supercilious
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
5. Deciduous
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
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.