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. Nihilism
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. Metamorphosis
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
3. Vortex
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
4. Respiration
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
5. Nadir
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
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.