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. Orthography
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
2. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
3. Tectonic
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
4. Incognito
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
5. Vortex
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
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.