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. Nomenclature
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Expurgate
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
3. Xenophobe
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
4. Yeoman
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
5. Thermodynamics
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
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.