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. Chromosome
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
2. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
3. Abstemious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
4. Polymer
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
5. Nihilism
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
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.