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. Xenophobe
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
2. Chromosome
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
3. Circumlocution
► To make an accusation against.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
4. Respiration
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
5. Soliloquy
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
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.