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
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
2. Irony
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
3. Vortex
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
4. Circumnavigate
► To proceed completely around:
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. Fiduciary
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To make an accusation against.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
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.