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. Expurgate
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. Ziggurat
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
3. Homogeneous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
4. Hypotenuse
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
5. Circumnavigate
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To proceed completely around:
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
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.