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. Chicanery
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Oligarchy
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
3. Wrought
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
4. Acumen
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To make an accusation against.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
5. Winnow
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
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.