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. Obsequious
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. Kowtow
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
3. Tautology
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
4. Plasma
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To proceed completely around:
5. Irony
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
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.