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. Acumen
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
2. Vacuous
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
3. Homogeneous
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
4. Bowdlerize
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
5. Winnow
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To proceed completely around:
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.