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. Impeach
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To make an accusation against.
2. Winnow
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► 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.
3. Kinetic
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
4. Abstemious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. Nihilism
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
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.