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. Kinetic
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
2. Vacuous
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
3. Infrastructure
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
4. Kowtow
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
5. Reparation
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
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.