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. Expurgate
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Notarize
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
3. Ziggurat
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
4. Incontrovertible
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
5. Laissez faire
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
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.