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. Irony
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. Fatuous
► 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.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
3. Abrogate
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
4. Nanotechnology
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Omnipotent
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
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.