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
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
2. Nihilism
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
3. Oxidize
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
4. Winnow
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
5. Enervate
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
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.