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. Bowdlerize
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. Facetious
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
3. Tautology
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
4. Nomenclature
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
5. Interpolate
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
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.