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. Jejune
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
2. Xenophobe
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
3. Expurgate
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
4. Inculcate
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
5. Contradiction
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
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.