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. Abjure
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Hubris
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
3. Bowdlerize
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
4. Chicanery
► To proceed completely around:
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
5. Inculcate
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
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.