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. Quotidian
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
2. Incognito
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
3. Winnow
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
4. Chicanery
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
5. Gauche
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
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.