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. Totalitarian
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
2. Expurgate
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
3. Nanotechnology
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
4. Homogeneous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
5. Belie
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
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.