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. Abrogate
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
2. Taxonomy
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
3. Vortex
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
4. Orthography
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
5. Contradiction
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
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.