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. Homogeneous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
2. Abrogate
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
3. Fiduciary
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To proceed completely around:
4. Fatuous
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
5. Usurp
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
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.