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. Facetious
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
2. Recapitulate
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
3. Circumnavigate
► To proceed completely around:
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
4. Bowdlerize
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
5. Vortex
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
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.