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. Polymer
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
2. Ziggurat
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
3. Totalitarian
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
4. Churlish
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
5. Nomenclature
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
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.