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. Lexicon
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
2. Parabola
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
3. Circumnavigate
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To proceed completely around:
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
4. Inculcate
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
5. Filibuster
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
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.