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
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
2. Vortex
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
3. Infrastructure
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
4. Supercilious
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To make an accusation against.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
5. Enfranchise
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
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.