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. Inculcate
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
2. Pecuniary
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
3. Vortex
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
4. Bellicose
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
5. Taxonomy
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
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.