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. Kowtow
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
2. Obsequious
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
3. Irony
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
4. Unctuous
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
5. Oligarchy
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
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.