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. Bowdlerize
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. Kowtow
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
3. Detritus
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
4. Homogeneous
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
5. Ziggurat
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
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.