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. Abrogate
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. Nonsectarian
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
3. Antebellum
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
4. Temblor
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
5. Hypotenuse
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
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.