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. Reciprocal
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Bowdlerize
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
3. Supercilious
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
4. Kinetic
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
5. Yeoman
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
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.