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. Vortex
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
2. Xenophobe
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
3. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
4. Photosynthesis
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
5. Quasar
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
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.