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. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
2. Homogeneous
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
3. Chicanery
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
4. Oligarchy
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. Hubris
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
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.