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. Nadir
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
2. Gerrymander
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
3. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
4. Contradiction
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To bring under control; conquer.
5. Expurgate
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
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.